Kamiyama Sojin

He appeared in over 70 films between 1917 and 1954. He was the subject of a 1995 TV documentary by the Japanese film director Nobuhiro Suwa. He was born in Sendai, Japan and died in Tokyo, Japan. His wife was actress Uraji Yamakawa.

Kataoka Chosei

Kataoka Chosei was a former Kabuki actor, former onnagata, and actor born in Yotsuya-ku, Tokyo. He appeared in almost all movies starring Matsunosuke, mainly as an onnagata. After appearing in the movie "Senma Kesazukin" directed by Nagao Shiroku, which was released in 1926, he disappeared from the…

Sato Toshizo

After being a police officer, he became a Liberal Party magistrate. His first performance as a substitute for the performance of Sudō Sadanori Ichiza in Ako in 1884. After that, he moved to Tokyo, and in 1926 he organized Isamizu Theater with Yoho Ii and Yoshimi Mizuno.

Hasegawa Shin

Hasegawa Shin was a Japanese novelist and playwright born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1911, he joined a Tokyo newspaper as a journalist. In 1917, he wrote his first novel in the "Narration Club", and in 1927, he founded, with Edogawa Ranpo and other prominent writers, an association to propel…

Ueda Yoshihiko

Ueda Yoshihiko is a photographer and Professor of Graphic Design at Tama Art University. Among his many awards are the Photographic Society of Japan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Tokyo Art Directors Club Grand Prize, and the New York Art Directors Club Photography Award. In 2011 he launched Gallery…

Hanayama Keiko

Hanayama Keiko is a Japanese actress from Niigata prefecture. Her agency is Empathy. She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Vocal Music. She also works as a musical singing teacher.

Mihashi Ko

Mihashi Ko was a Japanese actor who flourished during the Taisho and Showa eras. His real name was Ohashi Yoshio (大橋芳雄). Born in Tokyo, he dropped out of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and joined the New Theater Association. He made his debut on stage in February 1920 in "Blue Bird"…

Nakajima Chiaki

Nakajima Chiaki is a Japanese singer, model and actress born on September 6, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan.

Takasugi Teppei

Takasugi Teppei is a Japanese male actor, voice actor, and narrator born in Tokyo. He graduated from Nihon University, and made his debut in 1938. After working for the theater company Small Theater, Toho Theater Club, Takarazuka Theater, and theater company Togei, he became the Tokyo Actor's Life Cooperative…

Adachi Kentaro

Adachi Kentaro is a Japanese comedian born in Ikuno Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He belongs to Yoshimoto Kogyo Tokyo Headquarters (Tokyo Yoshimoto). Adachi is an Osaka NSC 21st gen member. From 1998 to 2003, he worked with Uematsu Teppei as a combination "Sugar Life". He worked as a combination…

Secret Journey

8.0

I, documentary video maker, saw a guy named Yuda in the middle of Tokyo. I was curious about Yuda and begun following him around, but one day he disappeared with my video camera. A couple of months later, a lady name…

Roomshare no Onna

4.0

The 21st NHK Yorudora, Roomshare no Onna centers on recently divorced Usami Usako, who also has a young son named Tarou. Usako leaves Tarou at her mother's home in Nagano to begin a new life in Tokyo, finding a job…

The Winds of God

6.7

Two Osaka comedians, Makoto and Kinta, are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain consciousness in 1945, but not of their own bodies. Somehow, their souls have been transported into…

Chiemi and Kokkunpatcho

Spring in Aomori is dirty... In a snowy northern town, Noriko works as a dental technician. Her father, who had gone to Tokyo to work, brings back a woman younger than herself. Meanwhile, Noriko receives a wedding…

Throws Out My Hometown

9.0

Aiko and Meri are best friends. But they are to be apart in the next spring, because Aiko is going to Tokyo to attend the university there. In their home town, they meet various people. A bus driver looking for his…

Undercover Boss Ga-me

7.5

Don-Game is a cafe owner who loves jazz and long epic songs. But that’s actually him in disguise. He’s in fact the chief of a secret organization called The Tokyo Police Confidential Investigation Division and…

Blue Sky

7.1

In 1920, a combat fight training school named "Willows" is founded in California. People who want to fight for Korea's independence from Japan gather at the school. Their mission is to bomb the palace of the Japanese…

Tenka

8.8

The story is about a 17-year-old girl, Tenka, who was born and raised in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. Her family moves to Tokyo when her father changes his job. Tenka stays for a short period of time with her grandfather,…

Mukoda Kuniko no Koi Bumi

In the autumn of 1963, as Japan prepared to host its first Olympic Games, the Mukaida family lived quietly in Suginami, Tokyo. Their second daughter, Mukaida Michiko, who had married and moved to Nagoya, had returned…